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Prologue, key themes in American history -- New nation: Meeting of three cultures pre-Columbian era - 1624; Enlightenment and the Revolutionary Era 1600-1788; Examining the Constitution 1787-1824; Expansion, reform and constitutional conflicts 1824-1860; Civli War and Reconstruction 1860-1977; America's economic transformation 1860-1900; Politics and daily life in the Gilded Age 1870-1900 -- America at peace and at war: Progressive Era, 1900-1917; America's rise to world power 1890-1914; Great War, 1914-1919 -- Prosperity and Depression: Society and Politics in the 1920s, 1919-1929; Technology and culture in the 1920s, 1919-1929; Great Depression 1929-1932; New Deal 1933-1940 -- War and Cold War: World at War, 1939-1941; Allied victory 1941-1945; Truman and the Cold War 1945-1952; Eisenhower and postwar prosperity 1953-1960; Troubled times; Turbulent sixties, 1960-1968; Vietnam War and its aftermath, 1954-1982; Era of turmoil, 1968-1974 -- America and its future: Triumph of conservatism, 1974-1988; Opportunities and challenges, 1988 to present -- Glossary

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